Tagged Questions

How can I get information about packages I have not installed (other than a web search)?
For example, imagine I am interested in iftop. If I do a web search I can find a wikipedia article and the man ...

I really don't know how the Debian maintainers check for all the bugs in every release of Debian, but isn't it the case that if all codes for every package have been patched up and tested for all CPU ...

I am building a new production environment and I have been thinking wether I should use 32bit or 64bit Debian 7. All the servers will have less than 4Gb of memory so I thought I could save some memory ...

I'm using a Linux CentOS release 6.6 on my laptop, and I've tried to install the "topicmodels" package into my R environment.
So I used the install.packages("topicmodels") command but unfortunately ...

On my working install of Linux (Mint 17), I've been trying to avoid installing the ia32-libs package.
When I've used it in the past, I recall a number of issues arising, most prominently significantly ...

I know how to extract a package, make some minor changes, and repackage it. I wanted to know if there was anything special you'd have to do if you were to repackage a deb package so it was compatible ...

The help docs mention marking for upgrade. The context menu and menu bar do not have this option listed at all, and the only non-greyed-out options are marking for removal or complete removal. There ...

I'm switching to CentOS from another distribution, and I'm not used to working with yum. I'd like to know if there's a way to know which installed packages have files in a directory.
For example I'd ...

I've been using CentOS 6.5 as my OS for quite a while. Usually I don't have many problems with Linux installations, but as they new CentOS 6.6 was released I found myself in a bit of a problem. There ...

I'm trying to install packages with having as little files from their dependencies as possible, since system size is important to me.
For example, when wanting to install a package, I could install ...

I'm currently helping a professor who is having trouble installing a particular software onto the school's server which runs on Red Hat/Fedora. The professor thinks that the software was packaged for ...

I have accidentally deleted some Linux Mint Cinnamon default packages. (I have run `remove evolution-*' to remove Evolution related packages, but it includes some core packages).
So now I don't have ...

I want to install a particular version which is not available from apt-get
utility but is available from https://packages.debian.org (like https://packages.debian.org/wheezy-backports/exfat-fuse for ...

Looking for advice on best way to determine unused entries (or alternatively, used entries) within response files for Solaris packages. Reason is that there are some response files that have suspect ...

I have two Python scripts, and I need to package them into a Debian package. I have tried quite a few things with some success. For example, I made a setup.py and then used python-stdeb to create a ...

I've been trying to compile x11/gnome2 under FreeBSD 10.0-REL, but have been running into all sorts of issues. Eventually I found things indicating that gnome2 is no longer really supported, and that ...

I was out to patch some squeeze servers for the shellshock bug.
A few googles later I found that I could updated my apt sources list. This did however not work for some reason.
I tried to search for ...

I have been searching for this problem everywhere from last 6 hours but never came to an answer which I understood
I don't have much experience on Kali Linux but I recently installed Kali Linux 1.0.9 ...

I have a .deb debian package which essentially contains the binaries of the software as a /usr/share/bin folder in a compressed data file, and another metadata compressed file containing the checksums ...

I read some posts and parts of FHS to understand which directory I should install packages in. As far as I could understand /opt is for independent packages and /usr/local is for packages that are not ...